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aging justice
Amelia 2022-04-21 09:01:06
"No Country For Old Men" can be used for quiz questions, and it has aroused endless imagination in the audience. It's a must-have for an American blockbuster, but it's not enough to capture the audience's heart. Therefore, it must not be ignored that it is adapted from the work of the same name by the American literary master Cormac McCarthy. There must be something unusual about this. If understood correctly, it points out the fate of human beings, that is, it considers the living conditions of human beings. In this sense, it is almost a literary display of Nietzsche's prophecy. Nietzsche said that the fate of human beings is either to be the last man (a person who has no heart and soul), or to become a superman (beyond good and evil, only the will to power). Simple, restrained wide shots, without too much blood, have already chilled us. This is the chill from the marrow, it is the rhythm in the depths of the desolate world. The old man chose to retire, chose to live in memories, and even lost his last patience with God. This is the age of speaking with fists and tricks, it has nothing to do with justice.
Extended Reading
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Carson Wells: [sitting by bed] Buenos Dias. I'm guessing this isn't the future you had planned for yourself when you first clapped eyes on that money. Don't worry, I'm not the man who's after you.
Llewelyn Moss: [in bed] I know that. I've seen him.
Carson Wells: You've seen him, and you're not dead?
Llewelyn Moss: What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?
Carson Wells: No, I wouldn't describe him as that.
Llewelyn Moss: How would you describe him?
Carson Wells: I guess I would say he doesn't have a sense of humor. His name is Chigurh.
Llewelyn Moss: Sugar?
Carson Wells: Chigurh, Anton Chigurh. Do you know how he found you?
Llewelyn Moss: Yeah, I know how he found me.
Carson Wells: Called a transponder.
Llewelyn Moss: Yeah, I know what it's called. He won't find me again.
Carson Wells: Not that way.
Llewelyn Moss: Not any way.
Carson Wells: Took me about three hours.
Llewelyn Moss: Yeah, well, I been immobile.
Carson Wells: No, you don't understand.
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[last lines]
Loretta Bell: How'd you sleep?
Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. Had dreams.
Loretta Bell: Well you got time for 'em now. Anythin' interesting?
Ed Tom Bell: They always is to the party concerned.
Loretta Bell: Ed Tom, I'll be polite.
Ed Tom Bell: Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em. It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...
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